> He's given the city workers decent contracts too. And city operations, on
> a day-to-day basis, are the best I remember, and no one's gone to jail for
> corruption. We could do a lot worse, and short of a very different popular
> configuration, we couldn't do much better.
>
> Doug
At least in an education context, those decent contracts have largely been a bribe to get union buy-in to totally screwy and utterly refutable ed policy, no?